It might not be the most strikingly original film in structure or execution - it's your usual mash-up of talking heads and archive. But when the subject is this fascinating, the interviewees such key supporting characters and the footage so gripping, that's not really a problem.

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If you love wrestling, you need to watch this film. Even if you don't, it's a captivating and inspiring story of a chancer starting from nowhere and changing things forever. It's a man forever young and forever learning - fired up by spirit, chutzpah and imagination. He dreams about how things can be, rather than just how they are. And he makes it happen.

As a bonus and to back up all that you've seen in the two-hour film, the collection comes packaged with a shedload of classic Heyman moments from across his career in pro-wrestling, from Paul E Dangerously's early giant cellphone-wielding days to his dismantling of Chicago in the absence of CM Punk.

The greatest compliment we can pay Paul Heyman is that this collection of promos is already out of date. His setting up of Brock Lesnar's SummerSlam battle with John Cena has continued the remarkable run of form he's been in since his last WWE comeback, and there's clearly plenty more in the tank.

But for now, we round up six things we learned from the documentary portion of the DVD, and invite you to enter our competition to win a Blu-ray copy of the release signed by the man himself.

1. It all started with Billy Graham
How did the self-proclaimed "schmuck son" of "the most ethical, honest personal injury attorney in the history of the Bronx" and a Holocaust survivor (his mother lived through the Łódź Ghetto, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen) become the greatest pro-wrestling manager of all time?

Watching Vincent McMahon (Snr) interviewing Superstar Billy Graham set everything in motion. "He was just vibrant and alive and I was mesmerised by him. I said, 'That's what I want to do for a living', and I was a fan from that moment on." He invested his Bar Mitzvah money in a photolab and camera and started snapping wrestlers for his own fanzines.

2. Paul can do a fantastic impression of Dusty Rhodes
After getting pally with Captain Lou Albano, Freddie Blassie and The Grand Wizard of Wrestling, Heyman snuck into The American Dream's production meetings for Jim Crockett Promotions, sweet talking his way into staying after being confronted.

He also inveigles his way into a promotions gig at Studio 54, where he presents his first ever event, featuring Ric Flair and Bam Bam Bigelow. It's Bigelow who badgers him into becoming a manager. Claiming to resemble Michael Keaton in 1984 gangster spoof Johnny Dangerously (really he looks more like a mulleted Bill Hicks), he dubs himself Paul E Dangerously.

3. We have Good Ol JR to thank for all those amazing Heyman promos
"I learned more about the performance while sitting next to Jim Ross than from anybody else before him," Heyman claims. "It was an amazing education. I learned how to be a far better manager by being a colour commentator with Jim."

A chalk and cheese relationship, but the pair perfectly complemented one another behind the announce desk during their time at WCW. They rekindled that relationship when Paul unexpectedly joined Monday Night Raw amid the collapse of ECW and they began needling each other once more.

4. He was never, ever paid by the WWE when he was head of ECW
"There was no greater supporter of ECW than Vincent Kennedy McMahon," Heyman says, but he never took a dime from him when ECW was still a going concern, despite lingering rumours to the contrary.

"The accusation always was that I was on the WWE payroll while I was running ECW. And it's not true. I never took a check from WWE while I was running WWE. Not once," Heyman says, without stuttering. "I was never paid by WWE while I was running ECW."

Okay, the then-WWF was paying ECW's parent company a grand a week from September 1996. But this was in lieu of the sponsorship cash they were missing out on from Tommy Boy Records after they let the WWE have 2 Cold Scorpio. That cash, Paul says, was used by ECW, and never went in his own pocket.

5. He did once fire his mother though
"His mum was even running merchandise for us at the time, up until he fired his mum," we're told at one point. Wowzers.

"Oh god, I'm sorry Paul for saying this, but I think there was a problem with the merchandise, it wasn't running as smoothly as possible, so Paul called up his mum and fired her. She said 'You can't fire me!' and he goes 'I just fired you!'"

6. Paul once let a young CM Punk help him write for TV
After he got sacked as the head writer of SmackDown for rubbing EVERYONE (especially the Raw team) the wrong way, Heyman welcomed the opportunity to move to developmental with OVW and work with young talent.

"I'm not sure if I'm supposed to be talking about this, but Paul invited me one night to help him write the television show, which I can't imagine anybody who's on the creative team would be thrilled to hear," CM Punk explains.

"He was receptive, he listened. He told me when my ideas sucked, he told me how to make 'em better. So I learned how to time out a show, I learned how to pace a show, I learned how to write a show, how to book a show. I learned everything from Paul Heyman."

If you want to win a signed copy of Paul Heyman's new Blu-ray, enter our competition below.

Open to UK residents aged 18 and over. To enter, please answer the question above. This competition opens on July 31 at 9.30am and closes at 4pm on Wednesday, August 6, 2014. Answers received after the closing date will not be considered. The prize is Ladies and Gentlemen, My Name is Paul Heyman on Blu-ray, signed by Paul Heyman. The winner will be randomly selected from the entries received. Hearst reserves the right to amend the terms and conditions for this competition at any time without notice. See website for full terms and conditions.